Hansra

"Once the money had reached Socomer, it was transferred to another Switzerland-based company, Cordotex. This company would collect commissions, patent fees, and profits from companies outside Sweden. At the beginning of the seventies, they had reached 10 billion sold packages per year, which required 140,000 tons of paper, plastic, and aluminum. The commissions on the materials for all these packages gave Cordotex a modest 4 million kronor in 1970. When the money arrived, Cordotex acted as the group’s internal bank. The company allocated money to various companies that needed funds for investments or to cover losses. However, most of the money was sent to the Rausing family foundations in the tax haven of Liechtenstein. There were two foundations; one, Hansra, was for the benefit of Hans’s family; the other, Gadsra, was for Gad’s family. But so far, there were no profits to deposit in the foundations, it was merely about commissions being transferred to Cordotex."

"Dutch Tetra Pak then transferred the shares to the two Dutch holding companies Hansra BV and Yora BV, which in turn were owned by the two Liechtenstein family foundations Hansra and Yora (formerly Gadsra), which had previously taken over Socomer and Cordotex. The shares went to the Netherlands due to the country’s favorable tax rules for capital transfers from subsidiaries to a Dutch parent company. Thereby, it was no problem to first send money to Hansra or Yora and then onwards to the foundations or needy companies around the world."